Dakar SS6: All the AXION Mini pairings finish in the top 10

Nani Roma © DR

– Al-Attiyah and Hirvonen also hold top-10 positions in the overall standings
– Tomorrow, the Dakar rally will return to Argentina

The four AXION X-raid teams impressed with a very good team effort, today. In the longest special stage of the 2016 Dakar, around the Bolivian city of Uyuni, all the four pairings made it to the top10.

Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) / Mathieu Baumel (FRA) were the fastest of the quartet and finished fifth – followed by Nani Roma / Alex Haro (both ESP), Orlando Terranova / Ronnie Graue (both ARG) and Mikko Hirvonen (FIN) / Michel Périn (FRA) in the positions six, seven and eight. In addition, Al-Attiyah (fourth) and Hirvonen (sixth) also defended their top-10 positions in the overall standings.

Tomorrow, the seventh stage will take the field back to Argentina. And on Sunday, the teams will spend their Rest Day at Salta. However, the service Teams will have to cope with a massive distance, tomorrow, and will arrive in the bivouac only late in the evening. At the same time, the pairings also will have to cover 817 kilometres, with the special stage distance amounting to 481 kilometres.

Result stage 6 (latest version click here)
1st S. Peterhansel (FRA) / J.-P. Cottret (FRA) Peugeot – 5h 01m 07s
2nd C. Sainz (ESP) / L. Cruz (ESP) Peugeot – 5h 01m 24s
3rd Y. Al-Rahji (SAU) / T. Gottschalk (GER) Toyota – 5h 08m 26s
4th S. Loeb (FRA) / D. Elena (MCO) Peugeot – 5h 09m 22s
5th N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) / M. Baumel (FRA) MINI ALL4 Racing – 5h 09m 58s
6th J. Roma (ESP) / A. Haro (ESP) MINI ALL4 Racing – 5h 12m 08s
7th O. Terranova (ARG) / B. Graue (ARG) MINI ALL4 Racing – 5h 14m 13s
8th M. Hirvonen (FIN) / M. Périn (FRA) MINI ALL4 Racing – 5h 15m 22s

Overall standing with 6 stages contested (latest version click here)
1st S. Peterhansel (FRA) / J.-P. Cottret (FRA) Peugeot – 18h 26m 20s
2nd S. Loeb (FRA) / D. Elena (MCO) Peugeot – 18h 26m 47s
3rd C. Sainz (ESP) / L. Cruz (ESP) Peugeot – 18h 32m 15s
4th N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) / M. Baumel (FRA) MINI ALL4 Racing – 18h 41m 39s
5th G. De Villiers (ZAF) / D. von Zitzewitz (GER) Toyota – 18h 55m 41s
6th M. Hirvonen (FIN) / M. Périn (FRA) MINI ALL4 Racing – 18h 56m 11s…
11th O. Terranova (ARG) / B. Graue (ARG) MINI ALL4 Racing – 19h 25m 09s…
13th J. Roma (ESP) / A. Haro (ESP) MINI ALL4 Racing – 19h 41m 12s…

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